Today we visited the Barossa Valley, one of Australia's great wine regions. One of the wineries we visited (pictured above) has the oldest shiraz vines in Australia. They were planted in 1843 and are still producing grapes that yield about one bottle per plant. It sells for $100 a bottle and they only export 50 cases a year to the United States. In an average year, they only get a total of 350 cases from those old vines. Believe it or not, they let us taste that wine!
We stopped at 3 other wineries, having our Morning Tea at the first one and lunch at another. We got to see some beautiful contryside and the tour was very informative. We were surprised to learn that most of the pruning and harvesting is done mechanically due to shortage of qualified labor.
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